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Bruce G. Carruthers

Non-resident Long-term Fellow for Programmes on Global Governance, SCAS.
John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Following an undergraduate degree in communication studies from Simon Fraser University in Canada,
Bruce G. Carruthers received his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1991. His research areas include
economic sociology, comparative and historical sociology, the sociology of law, and the sociology of
organizations. At Northwestern University, Carruthers is involved in the graduate Comparative Historical
Social Science program and the Kellogg-Sociology joint-PhD program. He was President of the Society
for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in 2013–2014 and directed the Buffett Institute for Global
Studies from 2014 to 2018.

His current research focuses on the history of credit and credit decision-making in the United States in
the 19th and 20th centuries, but he also works on the relationship between law and money, corporate
social responsibility and taxation, and the adoption of “business” features by U.S. museums. He has
had visiting fellowships at the Russell Sage Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the U.S. Library of Congress and received a John Simon Guggen-
heim Fellowship.

Carruthers has published five books, City of Capital: Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution
 
(Princeton University Press, 1996); Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England
and the United States
 (with Terence C. Halliday; Oxford University Press, 1998); Economy/Society: Markets,
Meanings, and Social Structure 
(with Sarah L. Babb; Sage, 2000); Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic
Financial Crisis
 (with Terence C. Halliday; Stanford University Press, 2009); and Money and Credit: A Socio-
logical Approach
 (with Laura Ariovich; Polity Press, 2010), with recent articles published in the Fordham Law
Review
, the Journal of Economic Literature, Social Science History, Socio-Economic Review, Sociétés Con-
temporaines
, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2019-20.